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Car Forum / Honda Cars / February 20082008 Accord Gas Milage
Anyone know what the gas milage estimates would be using 2007's formula instead of the new mpg one for 2008? Anyone point me to a link so I can figure it out myself if no one knows? Thanks, Polfus Consumer Reports rated the Accord this month. Check out their mileage at the library. I remember it was worse than the prior Accord because the new car is bigger. > Anyone know what the gas milage estimates would be using 2007's formula > instead of the new mpg one for 2008? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Thanks, > Polfus Hi Art..thanks for the reply. See..thing is that the EPA now ranks MPG for cars using a *new* system, which IIRC makes it look like the Accord is getting worse gas milage than the 2007 model, which I believe is NOT true. Thats what I wanna find out..what it would be if using last years system. Also, IIRC, I read somewhere that the new Accord gets better gas milage than even the older 1990-1994 2.4L 4 cyl., which was very good as it was. I recently went from NYC to NC, and of course back, and one tank got me there each way. Thats about 650 miles on a tank of gas, which comes out to about 35 MPG in this scenario...and I didn't run the tank dry, so the milage is actually probably *better* than 35 highway, for sure. Peace, Polfus > Consumer Reports rated the Accord this month. Check out their mileage at > the library. I remember it was worse than the prior Accord because the [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >> Thanks, >> Polfus Motortrend just compared the new accord, camry and and nissan (forgot model name temporarily due to age). They were testing 6 cylinder and Accord did the worse on mileage. They were surprised because EPA mileage was the best on the accord. They thought the camry was the best of the 3 despite Accord being the newest model. It also was roomiest despite being smaller than the Accord. > Hi Art..thanks for the reply. > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >>> Thanks, >>> Polfus Take a look at www.fueleconomy.gov . They have re-done the mileage ratings for older cars to match the new system. On 1/20/08 2:44 PM, in article 4793b2c7$0$22571$4c368faf@roadrunner.com, > Hi Art..thanks for the reply. > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >>> Thanks, >>> Polfus > Take a look at www.fueleconomy.gov . They have re-done the mileage ratings > for older cars to match the new system. THANK YOU! Peace, Polfus > Take a look at www.fueleconomy.gov . They have re-done the mileage ratings > for older cars to match the new system. Interesting! Take a look at what a 2007 Accord's MPG drops to when using the new system.. 2007 rating is 24/34, whereas same car using 2008 rating drops to 21/31. So, I will do a reverse calculation and assume that the new 2008 Accord has around 24/34 as well for the automatic 5 speed 4 cyl. using last year's system..it is listed as 21/31 for 2008. Thanks again...I sure was curious about this. Peace, Polfus >Anyone know what the gas milage estimates would be using 2007's formula >instead of the new mpg one for 2008? > >Anyone point me to a link so I can figure it out myself if no one knows? As others have mentioned, you can get 1985-2007 fuel economy estimates rescaled to be roughly comparable to 2008 estimates on http://www.fueleconomy.gov . If you want 2008 cars' fuel economy estimates using the 1985-2007 method, you can go to http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/download.shtml , download the 2008 datafile, unzip it, and look at the spreadsheet. Columns L, M, and N are the unadjusted fuel economy numbers. For the 2008 Honda Accord sedan 4-cylinder manual, they are 27.8 city and 43.11 highway. Applying the -10% for city and -22% for highway as used in 1985-2007, the estimates comparable to 1985-2007 estimates (on window stickers) become 25.02 city and 33.63 highway.  Signature------------------------------------------------------------------------ Timothy J. Lee Unsolicited bulk or commercial email is not welcome. No warranty of any kind is provided with this message. >>Anyone know what the gas milage estimates would be using 2007's formula >>instead of the new mpg one for 2008? [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > comparable to 1985-2007 estimates (on window stickers) become 25.02 city > and 33.63 highway. Thanks for the reply, Timothy! Peace, Polfus |
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